Convergence and Departure: Engagements in Moving-Image

  Titled ‘Convergence and Departure: Engagements in Moving-Image’, this three-part screening programme endeavours to expand the reach of moving-image in contemporary art discourse in Southeast Asia. In fourteen videos, selected from the collection of the Han Nefkens Foundation, artists bend genre to grapple with rupture and hybridity, presenting other ways of being, other modes of seeing, other methods of creating, other histories, temporalities, and geographies. From works that animate the polyphonic world around us to those that deal with loss and dislocation on a personal, historical, and ecological scale, the...

Hum a Tune | A Lecture Performance

Hum a Tune – A Lecture Performance Date/Time: Sun, 3 Mar @ 2-4PM Location: Sàn Art Millenium Masteri, Units B.16 & B.17 132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: English & Vietnamese To understand the fascination in sound-making means dissecting the social history of the cacophony and the ‘noise’ makers (or the early forms of musical instruments) that have emerged from the particular relationship between humans and nature. Learning to create sounds is also learning to listen to them. To accompany the visual...

S.E.A FOCUS 2024

S.E.A FOCUS 2024 Time: 20.01.2024 – 28.01.2024 Location: Tanjong Pagar Distripark, 39 Kepple Road, Singapore.  View the media release here.  S.E.A Focus is a leading showcase and art market hub that aims to bring together a fine curation of established and emerging artists in Southeast Asia. Titled “Serial and Massively Parallel”, the showcase for 2024 focuses on the interplay between humanity and technology. Alongside the exhibitions is SEAspotlight talks, a panel discussion inviting three speakers Yee I-Lann (Silverlens), Heri Dono (The Columns Gallery), and Dinh. Q. Lê (STPI – Creative...

The Disoriented Garden… A Breath of Dream

The Disoriented Garden… A Breath of Dream Duration: 12.12.2023 – 08.03.2023 Opening hours: Tues-Sat, 11am-6pm Location: Sàn Art Millennium Masteri, B6.17 & B6.16, 132 Ben Van Don, W.6, D.4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (enter via Nguyen Huu Hao) View the exhibition booklet here Sàn Art is delighted to introduce “Truong Cong Tung: The Disoriented Garden… A Breath of Dream,” opening Tuesday, December 12, 2023 and on view until Friday, March 8, 2024. Centred on the concept of the garden as a living, regenerative library, “The Disoriented Garden…A Breath of...

Everyone I know is sick: Screening Programme

Everyone I know is sick – Screening Programme Date/Time: Fri, 1 Dec @ 6-8PM Location: APSC Compound 35 Lily Road, 36 Thao Dien St. District 2, Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: English & Vietnamese Sàn Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS and the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting “Everyone I Know Is Sick,” a programme of five videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability.* The program features newly commissioned...